Shenanize

For those of you who know me well you will easily understand why I got chills when I found this presentation tonight. For those of you who don’t – simply – I love visualizing data. And this deck is just a ton of (not as visually attractive as it could be) great data! There is information in here I just find flat out interesting and several parts I need to share with my clients sooner rather than later. One of the most fascinating tid-bits was that consumers would give up everything (toiletries, land line phone service, cell phone service, etc) before they gave up their broadband internet connection in these recessionary times. I think their findings are spot on that the internet (especially with the largest growth being in home usages) is a great, cost effective escape from our current realities. Enjoy the data, I did.

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I was born on an apple orchard that my grandfather owned in upstate NY. And by upstate I mean Canadian boarder upstate. The farm was called Shenandoah Acres. My grandmother had a bridal shop in town called Shenandoah Bridal Shoppe – where I am told I spent a great deal of the first 3 years of my life. My mother just sent me a pineapple square recipe that happened to be written on the letterhead of this bridal shop which closed its doors in 1977. I just felt I had to share the image of it here – so fun to see where your name came from.

It was nice to see this piece come together. I do strongly feel that the mens market in under served online, but we have to consider how men shop and not just try to build sites for women with mens clothing in them. Then again, we also need to understand who is shopping for the men online, are they shopping for themselves? Or do their girlfriends/wives/partners/lovers/etc do their shopping for them? Maybe we need both? You can read the WWD story here: WWD.

Fun new tool!

Love the Word Heart too!

Ok – so I love tag clouds. I love anything that will help visualize data!! This is from Wordle.net

What a fun tool – I’m evidently a Doer : “The active and playful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.

The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time. ”

Thank you Typealyzer.com

Check out the re-invented At the Roundtable from Nielsen – it’s now AdWeek Media Connect.